Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...clergy of Cambridge and Boston, have the privilege of forming our own conceptions of heaven and bliss. Do not disgust all the educated with these caricatures of a future life. Or, if the pulpit's elevation does convince its occupant that he can see a little farther into the realms of the unknowable, may he seek to picture it in the scholarly way that does not confound the gratification of the sensual appetites with the stimulation of the noblest powers of our higher nature...
...laurel cross and wreaths surmounting the black hangings, behind and above the pulpit, and the dark drapery festooned along the galleries and caught up alternately by boughs of evergreen and by calla-lilies, gave to the whole Chapel an air of mourning, and yet of hopeful and of almost triumphant mourning, which every one there must have felt to be most appropriate. The form of service used at King's Chapel - the one which Agassiz himself preferred, we believe - was read by the Rev. Dr. Peabody. The singing, under the direction of Mr. Paine, was by the Glee Club; they...
...scale the pulpit and the courts...
...Arlington Street Church, Boston, was thinly attended for several years, until the Rev. Mr. Ware consented to take the pulpit, when he infused his own spirit into the people and filled the church to overflowing. The Rev. Mr. Alger crowds the Music Hall to its third gallery, preaching with an eloquence of thought and diction which is rarely equalled either in this country or in Europe. It is well known in Cambridge that the Rev. Phillips Brooks draws the students to him "with one consent" whenever he is announced to address them, whilst in his own church he has more...
...pulpit has been entirely remodelled to accord with the other improvements, and the large and ugly "sounding-board," which seemed to threaten immediate annihilation to our much respected pastor, has been removed, and the whole interior has undergone a complete transformation. We learn from a responsible source that the undergraduates will soon receive a cordial invitation to see for themselves...